Where should we bloom...
A collection of personal essays that grapple with the intensity of destruction in Gaza whilst tracking the light that a child’s innocence can cast on the worst situations. The author offers her testimony “because the words will stay alive after our death, and because the tales are hard sometimes, we write, to live after our deaths.”
Editions: English original in color and B&W.
Letter to the Reader
My dear reader,
from all over the world,
all of these words were written during the genocide,
during the war,
in the time of our death,
these words are not merely letters,
they come from our sadness,
loneliness,
when our sun was not like yours,
when our moon was not like yours.
In the nights of fears, I write.
In the nights of displacement, I write.
In my darkest times, I write.
So please, keep it in your hearts.
Always.
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About the Author
Nadera Mushtha, 22 years old, a poet and a writer from Gaza. She survived the war, her poems and stories have been published on numerous international platforms. Her works have been translated into several languages, including French, Italian, Turkish, Spanish, and Indonesian.
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